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Mobile phone hackers arrested, stolen devices recovered in Kisumu
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- Sep 27, 2026, 11:47 AM UTC
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City in Kisumu County, Kenya
Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya located in the Lake Victoria area in the former Nyanza Province. It is the second-largest city in the Lake Victoria Basin after Kampala. The city has a population of 438,588 according to the recent 2026 population estimates. The metro region, including Maseno and Ahero, had a population of 6,771 (Maseno) and 11,801 (Ahero) people respectively, totaling to a combined population of 457,160 people, according to the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census which was conducted by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.
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The two identified as John Odhiambo Oluoch and Samwel George Ouma, were arrested at a shop within Tivoli Centre in Kisumu City’s Central Business District (CBD) during an operation conducted by DCI detectives from Kisumu Central, in collaboration with fraud investigators from Mogo Auto Ltd.
Two suspects believed to be part of a mobile phone hacking racket have been arrested in Kisumu following an intelligence-led operation that also led to the recovery of an assortment of mobile phones and equipment suspected to have been used to tamper with stolen devices.
DCI detectives arrested two suspects over alleged mobile phone hacking at Kisumu's Tivoli Centre, recovering devices, laptops, and equipment for forensic analysis.